Senior Blockchain Engineer VP – Digital Assets

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Blockchain Engineer VP – Digital Assets.

At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative  this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will help design, build, and operate the blockchain infrastructure that powers Barclays’ next-generation Digital Assets Platform. This role focuses on deploying and managing institutional-grade blockchain networks and connectivity services that support crypto assets such as tokenized deposits, stable coins, tokenized securities, and other regulated digital asset use cases.

You will work across permissioned and open blockchain ecosystems, delivering resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure while partnering closely with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams to integrate blockchain capabilities into Barclays’ broader technology landscape.

To be successful as a Senior Blockchain Engineer VP – Digital Assets, you should have:

• Experience building, deploying, and operating production blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Solana, Besu, and /or other EVM-compatible technologies
• Practical expertise configuring and managing blockchain network infrastructure, including bootnodes, validators, RPC services, peer management, consensus mechanisms, permissioning frameworks, and node lifecycle operations
• Demonstrate experience integrating and operating connectors, relayers, bridges, or interoperability services between permissioned and open blockchain networks while understanding transaction finality, settlement models, and network-specific behaviors
• Be comfortable designing and operating highly available blockchain infrastructure, including node monitoring, chain-data storage optimization, performance tuning, observability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience controls

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience building multi-chain abstraction layers, blockchain adaptors, wallet integrations, and platform services that simplify interaction across multiple distributed ledger technologies
• Knowledge of token standards, onchain governance mechanisms, protocol upgrades, and blockchain network operations
• Understanding of digital asset workflows, including tokenized deposits, stable coins, custody, settlement, securities tokenization, and institutional blockchain-based financial services

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

• Build Engineering:
  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management:
  Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues,…